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Stuart Barnes

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Stuart Barnes was born in Tasmania, educated at Monash University, Victoria, and lives in Queensland, Australia.

His first book, Glasshouses (UQP, 2016), was awarded the 2015 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, commended in the 2016 FAW Anne Elder Award and shortlisted for the 2017 ASAL Mary Gilmore Award. His second book, Like to the Lark (Upswell Publishing, 2023), was awarded the 2023 Wesley Michel Wright Prize in Poetry, shortlisted for the 2024 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal and highly commended in the 2024 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry.

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	Glasshouses 4.41 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Admissions: Voices within Mental Health by David Stavanger (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Radhiah Chowdhury (Editor), Mohammad Awad (Editor) 4.09 avg rating — 34 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lovejets: Queer Male Poets on 200 Years of Walt Whitman by Raymond Luczak (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Shane Allison (contributor), Jeffrey Angles (Goodreads Author) (translator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Like to the Lark it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best of Australian Poems 2022 by Jeanine Leane (Editor), Judith Beveridge (Editor), Adam Aitken (Contributor) 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tincture Journal, Issue Six, Winter 2014 by Daniel Young (Editor), Stuart Barnes (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Meg Henry (Contributor) 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tincture Journal, Issue Four, Summer 2013 by Daniel Young (Editor), Stuart Barnes (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Meg Henry (Contributor) 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tincture Journal, Issue Twelve, Summer 2015 by Daniel Young (Editor), Stuart Barnes (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Karen Andrews (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tincture Journal, Issue Nine, Autumn 2015 by Daniel Young (Editor), Stuart Barnes (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Miodrag Kojadinović (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tincture Journal, Issue Two, Winter 2013 by Daniel Young (Editor), Stuart Barnes (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Meg Henry (Contributor) 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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In December of last year my poem ‘Pantoum’ was published in Poetry Ireland Review (thanks to editor Jessica Traynor) and my poem ‘The record player’, first published in Island Magazine, was included in Best of Australian Poems 2024 (thanks to editors Kate Lilley and Shastra Deo).

In May of this year my poem ‘Duplex (Cleft phlox (Phlox bifida))’, first published in Modron Magazine, was featured on

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This Woman's Work: Essays on Music

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Naked at the Albert Hall: The Inside Story of Singing

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“Through the small windows, through the plane tree
branches, new lime-green leaves, it's no longer
winter. He stands naked for a moment,

eager for company, invites it, knows.
His heart is thumping hard inside his chest.
He leans his head onto the edge, eyes closed.”
― Stuart Barnes, Glasshouses

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“The little thickets were the only place to get to.
The absence of the sea

Set a white, extravagant quiet.
I awaited the great beauty of the gorse—”
― Stuart Barnes, Glasshouses

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“trumpeting
through blood &
bone the glasshouse's
yellow stars”
― Stuart Barnes, Glasshouses

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“Happiness is black cockatoos squabbling in the eucalypts.”
― Stuart Barnes, Like to the Lark

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“Your coal mind and mechanical eyes
turned the sea of light downside up, World.”
― Stuart Barnes, Like to the Lark

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“Rape declared nuclear war, but I am not rape
-torn or -weary, a rape trophy or poet.”
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“Red-
tailed Bedouins
of Poetry, black
cockatoos embroider
the sun into us,
seam-rip it asunder.”
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Persephone Books specializes in rediscovering 20th century novels, neglected women writers, twentieth century women writers and out of print books. Th ...more

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A group for sharing thoughts on favorite books involving gay life, themes or issues. (To see all discussions, click on "all" to the right of discussi ...more

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Read one or more of our books? Want to discuss your reading experience directly with the author? We can make that happen.

Experimental Poetry — 188 members — last activity Aug 25, 2023 04:02PM
for experimental poetry enthusiasts +++++++ from all corners of the avant/arriere-garde... futurism, dada, ultraism, gendai haiku, surrealism, angry ...more

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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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City Lights Books is a landmark independent bookstore and publisher that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics.

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Nov 24, 2020 03:32PM

Kyle wrote: "Hey Stuart!
Thank ya kindly for the friend invite!
Scream is a groovy choice. It’s definitely up there for me, too. 🤟🏻"

I still watch bits of it through my fingers! Great to connect here, Kyle!

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message 5: by Stuart

Nov 21, 2020 05:40AM

William wrote: "Thank you for the friendship!"

Great to connect here! Thanks, William.

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